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Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...manager working in hospice and palliative care for 40 years. Barbara sets the scene - “‘I write this from the perspective of a white western European mother, grandmother. I know there will be people and cultures that will have different views about how we should prepare for death, but in this series of articles I will be focusing on my thoughts about western...
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Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...management corporations. Politics moved away from the idea of making society better, and instead became about the prediction and management of risk. Transcript The political narrative, hollowed out by simplification and often intentionally contradiction, took on a surreal aspect. As Curtis is fond of saying, ‘nothing quite made sense anymore’ as politicians’ stories...
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The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...management planned to close. Andy Clark tells us what happened and the result of the occupation...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than...
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Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...management, where people use verbal and nonverbal tactics to influence and manage others’ favourable impressions of themselves (Bonaccio et al., 2016). Many employers now use structured and competency-based interviews (more on these below) to reduce the influence of impression management, as it may cause bias towards that person from the interviewer, even if may not be...
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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...project organized by ABC Open and First Languages Australia, also serves to promote the local language of Kukatja, a vulnerable language with less than 1,000 current speakers. In the video, for each hand sign that the women demonstrate there is the corresponding word in Kukatja along with its English-language translation. [A truck drives through the Big Sandy Desert] A...
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Transfer moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Transfer moulding

...projected area of 650 cm2. Capable of producing components with varying wall thicknesses, delicate holes and the inclusion of inserts (these would not be possible by compression moulding). Closer tolerances are possible than with compression moulding. This is particularly true of dimensions perpendicular to the parting lines, because the mould is clamped shut before...
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Centrifugal casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Centrifugal casting

...projects the metal outwards from the rotational axis and onto the walls of the mould...Sand moulding casting: [Images to demonstrate Centrifugal casting (see article)] Metal moulding casting: Horizontal method used for the production of long pipes. [Images to demonstrate Centrifugal casting (see article)] Vertical centrifugal casting: Core used for central holes. [Images...
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PodMag April 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag April 2016

...project, the Enduring Love Study, carried out by Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink at the Open University, which surveyed people’s experiences of long term relationships. Meg-John and Jacqui draw on the research throughout the book, bringing the statistics to life with individual life stories from interviewees. The book aims to help readers to find out what works for them. Dr...
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